I had a task a few days ago where I wanted to make web content appear and disappear depending on some backend DB constraints. So CSS/DHTML was the obvious choice!! By setting "style.visibility " to either 'visible' or 'hidden' you can reveal or hide web content with ease. so off I went and coded............
I found this funny, when opening up a Microsoft program, it began to run the autoupdate from Microsoft. This is the first time I have ever seen a Microsoft autoupdate program launch. So then I looked at what was being updated, and guess what? Microsoft was updating the auto-update program...
I've always loved MySQL. It's fast, simple, free and there are plenty of resources on the web covering every topic. But there is much more to databases then MySQL. A client of mine asked me to do a job using Postgres to enable compatibility with existing systems. I installed Postgres pretty easily...
I was programming in PHP one day when I saw the weirdest error message. "Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or '$' in /sites/client_site/edit/d_stock.php on line 313 So I stared at it, and I kept thinking it looked familiar...
Before I came here I tended to avoid Javascript like a sort of scourge. I found out that this was a terrible idea in some instances and Javascript can increase the usability and performance of some web-based applications enormously...
When to use Java Script? When I first started Web Application programming I was told to try to use client side scripting (Java Script) only for input validation. That is because it seems to cause problems since different browsers handle it differently...
On one of our projects here, there was a need to track whether the emails and faxes being sent out by our client where actually being read/send or not. For faxing, we are using a fax service that allows us to track the exact status of our faxes (we use HTML faxing), but emails don't have such a feature...
I ran into a problem the other day. I was asked to help set up a wireless network for a friend of mine and said sure and set aside an hour to help him out. Man, was my time estimation out!!! I thought it would be straight forward, but it turned out to be a major headache. The issue turned out to be as...
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As we did last year, we will be sponsoring a team at the JBA. This time we decided to put more attitude and smarts into the team. We came up with a new team name, The RustyBrick Bytes...
I've been having issues with OS X timing out on dns queries to my local BIND dns server. Many people have written on the issue. I've been following the postings at macosxhints.com
Let me start off with a bit of history. A while back, we needed a solution that would provide for load balancing of our T1 and Cable line Internet connections, VPN support, firewall and routing capabilities. We decided to go with the Symantec Firewall 200r, which offered all of these...
Last night we played Tuvia's in the 2nd round of the playoffs, in the 4th quarter we went on a 17 to 2 run and blew them away. Next we play JBA Gold in the championship.
Last night was the last game of the regular season for the RustyBrick basketball team. Although we already clinched first place a week ago, we wanted to come out with a win for our last game. We did that and our record is 8 wins and 4 losses. The next best record is 6 wins and 6 losses. Now for the playoffs...
You really do not know the meaning of fun until you have written a detailed project specification for a Web application that will run the day to day operations of a very busy business. Of course I am being sarcastic...
This week while writing some code, we needed to change a field from a float (which display about 19 decimal points by default) to a number with was 2 decmial points. In PHP this isnt an issue but we thought that in Javascript it would be. If you are running
I have many meetings each week, not those weekly meetings but the ones that actually have true meanings. Some of the meetings we have are with existing clients where we review the sites progress and discuss amendments and enhancements...
Do you know the difference between the following operator use? if ($a==$b){} and if ($a===$b){} The first one compares only value, the second one compares value and type.
I had an issue a few weeks ago when I needed a popup window for some added functionality. THis was not an issue as you could use the javascript window.open() to acheive this. The issue though was I needed to update the parent window with the new info added or updated in the current popup window...
This semester I am taking a class in probability. It is one of the harder maths that I've taken. The math is one of electives I need to take that have a Calc I pre-req. It seems to me that this is more of a class for math students then for Computer Science students...